[visarga]

And when you think of all those Hollywood SF movies where the robot could reason and act quite well but in a tin-voice. How wrong they got it. We can simulate high quality voices but we can't have our reasoning, walking robots.

[ilaksh]

Depending on how you mean 'reasoning, walking robots' then not yet really.. but every few weeks or months another amazing deep learning/NN whatever thing comes out in different domains. So these types of techniques seem to have very broad application.

Of course, if you mean 'walking' in a literal sense, there are a number of impressive walking robots such as Atlas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY, HRP-2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6BSSWWV-60 or HRP 4C https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvbAqw0sk6M, etc.. Also there are many types of useful reasoning systems. I am guessing you are thinking of language understanding and generation.. but I believe these types of techniques are being applied quite impressively in that area also, from DeepMind or Watson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-vMW_Ce51w etc.